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RIGHTS CATALOGUE ADULT FICTION SPRING 2018 This is Rights & Brands We bring Nordic rights to a global arena. Our background is in literature, art and design. We are a 360 agency using all aspects of character representation and branding, from publishing and PR to licensing, merchandising and digital presence. With a worldwide network of sub-agents and over 700 clients, our international knowledge and business capacity is unique. What we do We are a literary rights and brand licensing agency. Starting from a strategic base in Nordic literature and design, our platform is built on knowledge, passion and people. With a dozen sub-agents in key markets like Japan, Korea and China and over 700 clients worldwide, we are opening up our business network to Nordic rights holders, authors, illustrators and designers. What we can do for you Based on our experiences and successes with the Moomin brand and with an established international platform, we are building publishing rights as well as potential licensing, merchandising and digital platforms. With your brand and our knowledge we will open up new markets and business areas. rightsandbrands [email protected] www.rightsandbrands.com rightsandbrands 2 Eve Hietamies | Commercial Fiction DaD arounD the clock A hilarious and poignant story of a single dad taking care of his son since newborn. arala h hoto: Jouni Jouni hoto: p EVE HIETAMIES (b. 1964) is author of several acclaimed and hugely entertaining novels. She writes with great dramatic skill, often describing exceptional situations and family relation- ships with poignancy, emotional strength and black humour. She works as a journalist at one of the biggest weekly magazines Bottle Business Daycare Drama School Shock in Finland and has also written Dad Around The Clock Dad Around The Clock #2 Dad Around The Clock #3 numerous scripts for popular (Yösyöttö) (Tarhapäivä) (Hammaskeiju) television series. PAGES: 300 PAGES 300 PAGES: 300 FIRST PUBLISHED IN Finnish in 2010 FIRST PUBLISHED IN Finnish FIRST PUBLISHED IN Finnish by Otava Publishing Company in 2012 by Otava Publishing in 2017 by Otava Publishing Company Company Sparklingly funny … makes Marriage? Check. Mortgage? Check. you laugh whether you Family car? Check. When the father and son Oskar has started first grade have children or don’t. But plans change six days after his family unit takes in a friend’s and has a cellphone of his Cosmopolitan son is born. Holding the snuffling bundle daughter as a temporary own. Suddenly Jonas’ phone of his newborn son, Jonas watches as houseguest, Jonas and Oskar line gets very busy. Who could Seriously hilarious the receding taillights of a taxi carry discover how many different have imagined all the little and turun sanomat away his wife – and with them, his shades of pink there really are. bigger problems a seven-year- An exhilarating and expectations of a normal, nuclear family old can face? touching story life. Enter the great unknown of night anna magazine feeds, sleep-deprivation and mountains “Goodbye to sex, nights out and work jollies. Hello of diapers. burp cloths, baby formula and Teletubbies. How do the single-dad and the baby survive through the first two years as a But where the hell is a bloke like me The movie adaptation of the family of two men? supposed to access those primeval 120 000 novel Bottle Business was awarded the prize for Best maternal genes?” copies Nordic Feature at the Nordic sold in International Film Festival in Finland New York in October 2017. 3 Cosy Crime | Eppu Nuotio Garden As light and as warm as a blanket one needs on Crime a terrace on a Finnish summer night. kodin kuvalehti ellen Spring inveStigateS This cosy crime series introduces us to a charming modern day Miss Marple who delights readers with her passion, astuteness, and practical skills capable of solving any kind of mess. Ellen Spring, recently retired and widowed, is in the prime of her life at the age of 58. She loves to travel and is obsessed by the perennials in her garden. However, Ellen is also an exceptionally perceptive individual, with a curious mind, an ability to smell a rat, and an interesting circle of friends. The White Flowers Of Poison Dead Flowers And Mothers-In-Law ellen Spring inveStigateS 1 ellen Spring inveStigateS 2 (Myrkkykeiso) (Anopinhammas) PAGES: 252 PAGES: 350 ynkkynen t o ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN Finnish in 2017 ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN Finnish in 2018 J ar by Otava Publishing Company by Otava Publishing Company m hoto: hoto: A young mother takes some time off alone Ellen is on a garden holiday in Andalucía, when p at the summer cottage. Her husband is she runs into a Spanish-Finnish wedding party. EPPU NUOTIO (b. 1962) overwhelmed by the sudden responsibility of Convinced that their meeting in this far-flung writes for adults, children, taking care of their young daughter. Luckily, corner of the world must be a good omen, the theatre and TV. Nuotio’s Ellen Spring has the time and the means to bride invites Ellen to attend the wedding. thrillers have been critical, as help. The happy couple are married and the well as commercial, successes But when the mother doesn’t return in time, celebrations continue into the small hours. In in Finland. In her novels, she it seems Ellen has more work to do than she the morning, Ellen is woken by a shrill cry. It emphasises current events and originally prepared herself for. How did this must be the peacocks, she thinks, but as she headline topics such as racism beautiful young woman with an apparently makes her way to breakfast, a grisly surprise and multiculturalism. perfect life disappear? awaits in the hotel lobby. 4 Kati Hiekkapelto | Nordic Noir KATI HIEKKAPELTO (b. 1970) is a special needs teacher by training. She lives on an old farm on the island of Hailuoto in Northern Finland. Hiekkapelto has been an immigration’s teacher and lived in the Hungarian region of Serbia. Hiekkapelto’s first novel The Hummingbird was published in spring 2013 and was the start of the detective series featuring Anna Fekete. oukala r ki a : OTO anna Fekete SerieS h p The Hummingbird The Defenceless The Exiled (Kolibri) (Suojattomat) (Tumma) PAGES: 381 PAGES: 301 PAGES: 303 FIRST PUBLISHED IN Finnish FIRST PUBLISHED IN Finnish FIRST PUBLISHED IN Finnish in 2013 by Otava Publishing in 2014 by Otava Publishing in 2016 by Otava Publishing Company Company Company Hungarian by ethnicity, Yugoslav When an old man is found dead Anna Fekete decides she will by birth, one-time refugee Anna on the road, detective Anna Fekete spend the summer relaxing in Fekete’s career as a detective begins is certain that there is more to the region of her birth-place, in a in a northern Finnish coastal town. the incident than meets the eye. small Serbian town. While cele- Although fully integrated into her Anna is led on a deadly trail brating the local wines, Anna’s new homeland, the young immi- where illegal immigration, drugs purse is stolen. It doesn’t take grant considers herself a stranger, and, ultimately, murder threaten long to find the thief – dead on perhaps most of all to herself. not only her beliefs, but her life. the riverbank. The local police A young woman has been Amid the increasingly dangerous is reluctant to conduct a proper killed on a running trail, and a police investigations Anna finds investigation, so Anna takes pendant depicting an Aztec god herself racked with homesickness. matters into her own hands. has been found in her possession. Meanwhile, Anna’s partner The trail of clues unexpectedly Another murder soon follows. All Esko is investigating the activities leads Anna to her own family, to signs point to a serial killer. But of an immigrant gang. Deportation closely guarded secrets concealing can Anna catch the Hummingbird orders and raids result in desper- a horrendous travesty of justice. before he – or she – strikes again? ate measures by gang members As layer after layer of corruption, An incident potentially indicat- – and the police themselves. Then a deceit and guilt are revealed, ing honour violence also requires bloody knife is found in the snow Anna is caught up in the refugee Anna’s attention: a teen-aged Kurd and the two cases come together crisis spreading like wildfire girl, Dijar, has called the police in ways that no one could have across Europe. claiming to be in danger. predicted. The Defenceless was the Best Finnish Crime Novel of the year and was nominated for the Glass Key award. All three titles have been nominated for the Petrona Award in the UK. 5 Nordic Noir | Jesse Haaja and Helena Waris Jesse Haaja’s and Helena Waris’ Rendel (Rendel) PAGES: 230 ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN Finnish in 2017 by Like All Netherholme titles awarded The Best Fantasy Novel of the Year a J Publishing aa h Jukka Rämö is a financial manager living an idyllic life with his Helena Waris' family until a series of bad decisions destroys it all. He becomes Netherholme Trilogy Rendel, a masked superhero, who sets out to take revenge on a (Pohjakontu-trilogia) multinational drug corporation, VALA. A Path Drawn to a Dream As the stakes rise, a strike team of international assassins led (Uniin piirretty polku) by the one-eyed Radeki also appear on the stage. hoto & artwork: Jesse & artwork: hoto p The Wolf Children (Sudenlapset) Winterblooded (Talviverinen) PAGES: 334-454 A thrilling big-budget ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN super hero movie is Finnish in 2009, 2011 and 2013 now a novel. Movie by Otava publishing company Stout-hearted thundermen, a J distribution rights sold han C aa s fearless maidens, romance and h to over 30 territories a dashing wordplay – the land- around the world! scapes of primeval Finland are ruled by shamanic powers and oto: Juuli oto: Jesse oto: PH PH eternal love.

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